Zoë Kravitz needs you to know that Catwoman is bisexual — or that is her tackle the enduring character, anyway.
In a brand new interview with Australian outlet Pedestrian, the blockbuster actress shared extra about how she selected to painting one of many world’s most famed feminine anti-heroines in Matt Reeves’ upcoming movie The Batman. Zoë performs Catwoman, often known as Selina Kyle, alongside Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Paul Dano as The Riddler. Zoë technically reprises the position after voicing the character in 2017’s The Lego Batman Film.
Pedestrian interviewer Matt Galea inquired about one scene of the 2022 movie specifically, through which Zoë’s character calls her feminine roommate her “child.” Galea requested Zoë whether or not the road of dialogue and using such a loving pet identify implied one thing extra romantic between the 2 ladies.
“That is undoubtedly the way in which I interpreted that, that they’d some type of romantic relationship,” Zoë responded.
Selina Kyle/Catwoman has certainly been depicted as bisexual inside her illustrated historical past, significantly in author Genevieve Valentine’s 2015 comedian storyline through which Selina Kyle kisses one other iteration of Catwoman. However whereas it is comedian canon, Catwoman has but to be portrayed as bisexual on-screen.
Zoë’s Catwoman predecessors embrace actresses like Halle Berry, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Anne Hathaway. When Pedestrian‘s Galea expressed pleasure in the direction of “lastly” seeing Catwoman portrayed as bisexual in Batman’s cinematic universe, Zoë nodded: “I agree.”
Nevertheless, in one other interview performed by Galea for Pedestrian, The Batman director Matt Reeves agreed with the interpretation, however not as wholeheartedly as Zoë. Reeves believes his movie stays “very true to the character of Selina Kyle,” however Selina’s relationship together with her feminine roommate, named Anika, was initially meant to tackle a extra maternal than romantic dynamic.
“When it comes to her relationship with Anika, I spoke to Zoë very early on and one of many issues she stated which I beloved was that: ‘She’s drawn to strays as a result of she was a stray and so she actually needs to look after these strays… Anika is sort of a stray and she or he loves her. She really represents this connection that she has to her mom who she misplaced,'” Reeves recounted of his dialog with Zoë in the course of the earlier levels of the movie.
Even nonetheless, Reeves is not towards the thought of a queer Catwoman within the cinematic world of Batman — as a substitute, he welcomes the versatile interpretations of the character that followers, and his actors, might develop.
“So I don’t assume we meant to go instantly in that method, however you may interpret it that method for certain,” Reeves continued. “[Selina] has an intimacy with [Anika] and it’s an amazing and deep caring for that character, extra so than a sexual factor, however there was meant to be fairly an intimate relationship between them.”
In Reeves’ newest addition to the Batman franchise, Zoë’s character has not but totally taken on the mantle of the Catwoman id, depicting Selina by her “turning into” of the mysterious anti-heroine.